Quote Originally Posted by Briana90802 View Post
I'm all for positive, but a critique is neither positive or negative, but more over a suggestion course of action that may improve the overall functionality. As far as mis-construing things we should all take things with a grain of salt. people take offense so easily these day. We react instead of thinking and then acting accordingly.

You can choose to react to a criticism or think about it and act appropriately.
I have to agree with Kate and Karren, criticism - especially on personal appearance - is too often interpreted as attack when anything negative is brought up. In that circumstance, better to be generally complimentary or say nothing at all. If you asked "which wig is better, A, B, or C?" and I said "None," how might you feel? Maybe a bit hurt that I don't like any of your choices? I've found that a lot of people who ask for advice or criticism don't really want it, they just want affirmation they've done the right thing.

There are places for tough criticism however. I recently proofread and edited a screenplay for a friend, and wound up deconstructing it with comments on almost every line. I was very forthright that her story was not good as written but it did have a lot of great ideas within. Did it hurt? Certainly, since nobody likes to see their entire document marked up in red. Will she make a better second draft? If she takes the constructive advice I offered, no doubt. She said as much herself and also said she wouldn't have had me work on it if she didn't trust me.